Home Office Design Blog

There are times when we can’t always work from the comfort of our home office - not ideal but it’s a fact of life for many of us. There’s a ton of choices for how we’re going to handle this working away from. You can just work from a cybercafe if all you have to worry about is just basically checking your e-mail. I use a service called Spamarrest for filtering my e-mail for spam and it allows me to monitor up to 5 mailboxes from one single account - this is ideal for me as I have several websites that I run and it just saves a lot of time and headaches.

For those who demand a little bit more power and facilities then a Palm or PocketPC would be ideal. These are great if you need some basic word-processing, presentation or spreadsheet functionality and are also great for calendaring your working day, week, month or year. Many of the new, high-end smartphones (50% cellphone and 50% PDA) now have many of these features included so it might be working checking with your cellphone provider to see what the latest models look like.

Now we come to the last step - the laptop. If you want to bring your computer “with you” then a full blown laptop is the only way to go. At the moment I own two - an IBM T60 and an old IBM T20. Why IBM? They’re as tough as old boots and do exactly what I need them to - although the T20 is more of an ornament now to be honest but it comes in handy around the house lol I just happen to like IBM laptops. Period.

Modern laptops are fast, sleep and powerful creatures which can easily take advantage of cables or wireless networks and handle all but the most crippling of applications (and yes even a few games…when you’re unwinding *ahem*). If you’re just travelling for a few days then a PDA/Blackberry/Smartphone should be enough. If you are, however, going to be travelling a lot of expect that you might be well then invest in a laptop and just save yourself all the stresses and hassles that you’ll have otherwise.

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at 12:18 pm and is filed under Home Office Stuff, Lifestyle, Other, Techie. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.